Latest Toyota Production System Stories
Lean executive recruiting firm, Career Kaizen, now offers US manufacturers a new low flat fee for recruiting to lower the cost of hiring exceptional talent. Career Kaizen president and manufacturing recruiting expert, Jim Baran, believes that in order for US manufacturing businesses to rebuild, everyone needs to do their part. Hendersonville, North Carolina (PRWEB) February 07, 2013 With a deep interest in helping to revitalize US manufacturing, national lean executive recruiting firm,...
Advancing lean thinking and practice in every endeavor everywhere is the mission of the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute as it prepares to mark its 15th anniversary this week, according to CEO John Shook. Cambridge, MA (PRWEB) July 30, 2012 To mark its 15th anniversary on August 1, 2012, the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) today offered some lessons learned about how to achieve successful lean transformations. “Lean is often misunderstood as cost-cutting,” said LEI CEO...
CLEVELAND, Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The editors of IndustryWeek have selected 10 honorees for the 2011 class of the IW Manufacturing Hall of Fame. IndustryWeek is the premiere publication serving executive and operations leaders in the manufacturing industry. IndustryWeek has a long history of acknowledging the leaders of manufacturing operations through distinguishing programs such as the IW 50, IW 500 and IW Best Plants. Through the IW Manufacturing Hall of Fame,...
ZHEJIANG, China, July 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- SORL Auto Parts, Inc. (NASDAQ: SORL) ("SORL" or "the Company"), a global tier one supplier of brake and control systems to the commercial vehicle industry, today announced that to improve its production management system, managers of its subsidiary, Ruili Group Ruian Auto Parts Co., Ltd., recently completed advanced training in the TPS production management system. The TPS (Toyota Production System) production management system...
Industry leaders in implementing rapid, sustainable change join forces to better serve clients worldwide. Gemba Research of Seattle, USA and Kaizen Institute of Zug, Switzerland have merged to form a global lean management consultancy, Kaizen Institute Consulting Group (KICG). Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) January 13, 2011 Gemba Research and Kaizen Institute join forces to form the most geographically diverse expert lean management consultancy. "The merger of our two companies allows us to...
BOULDER, Colo., April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Rally®, the leader in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM), has acquired AgileZen(TM), creators of a visual project collaboration tool that manages work using the Lean concept of Kanban. The acquisition strengthens Rally's position in the emerging Kanban market, and extends Rally's project collaboration and process improvement offerings used throughout the Agile business. The Rally and AgileZen teams will present their products and...
Educators should learn a thing or two from the Just-In-Time and Lean production techniques used by the automotive industry if they are to add value to the student experience as quickly and effectively as possible. That's the conclusion of a report published in the International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management.Meera Alagaraja of the Supply Chain Systems Laboratory, at Texas A&M University, explains how "Lean production" techniques have transformed the...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., July 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- YRC Worldwide Inc. (Nasdaq: YRCW) announced that it has earned a Kaizen Challenge Award for continuous improvement from Toyota North American Parts Organization (NAPO) for the second consecutive year. Toyota NAPO announced the 2008 award winners during its annual logistics provider meeting on July 7, 2009.Kaizen, which means continuous improvement in Japanese, is an integral component of the Toyota Production System (TPS). To encourage...
